Statistics for the behavioural sciences

Statistics can feel bewildering, and many students wish someone would walk them through the fundamentals in plain terms. This textbook does exactly that, taking readers through every subject normally covered in an introductory statistics course for the behavioural sciences. Its worked examples are explained in detail and drawn from real psychology experiments that apply the techniques being taught. Readers who want to go further can turn to the optional advanced sections on individual topics.

The book opens with the basic ideas and then builds through descriptive statistics, probability and the binomial distribution. It moves on to continuous random variables, the normal distribution and the Chi-Square distribution, before covering the analysis of categorical data, t-tests, correlation and regression.

It is intended for undergraduate psychology students and for students on research methods courses in related fields. It will also suit anyone who wants to understand the core concepts and tests used in statistics for the behavioural sciences.